Mexico’s president has confirmed that the six victims who were on the small medevac jet that crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood Friday evening were Mexican citizens.
“I regret the death of six Mexicans in the plane crash in Philadelphia. The consular authorities are in permanent contact with the families,” Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on X Saturday morning.
“I have asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support them in whatever way is required. My solidarity with their loved ones and friends,” she added.
The plane, carrying a young girl who had received “live-saving treatment” in the US, her mother, a doctor, paramedic, pilot and copilot, Shai Gold, spokesman for Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, told NBC 10 Philadelphia.
Here is the latest on the Philadelphia medevac jet crash
- Medical jet crash left ‘huge’ hole in Philadelphia house, ‘sounded like a bomb went off’: witnesses
- Dashcam, doorbell footage captures horrifying moment medevac jet crashed in Philadelphia neighborhood
- Chilling audio reveals final moments before Philadelphia plane crash: ‘We have a lost aircraft’
- Medevac plane crash victim ID’d as young girl headed home to Mexico after ‘life-saving treatment’ in US
- Small medevac jet carrying pediatric patient crashes near Philadelphia mall, unleashing fireball with multiple casualties reported
The Learjet 55 that plummeted out of the sky shortly after 6 p.m., less than a minute after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport en route to Missouri’s Springfield-Branson National Airport.
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